MOVIES AND THE MIND
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Date: Saturday 23 May 2009
Time: 15:30 - 18:30
Venue: Arnolfini, Bristol
How to book: Price: £6.00 / £4.50. Contact Arnolfini www.arnolfini.org.uk, Bristol on: 0117 917 2300 or visit in person. Please also see Festival of Ideas film program.
The remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the world-renowned editor of French Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralysed by the inexplicable ‘locked in’ syndrome at the age of 43.
Bauby’s only way of communicating with the outside world was by blinking with one eye and, after several dedicated helpers helped him to speak through this seemingly irrelevant gesture, he began to produce the words that would form his memoir.
Find out more about stroke and ‘locked-in’ syndrome after the film: after the screening, there will be the chance to discuss stroke and the brain with members of Bristol Neuroscience including:
- Dr Richard Hardie, Department of Neurology, Bristol Institute of Clinical Neurosciences
Dr Hardie is a consultant neurologist who specialises in traumatic brain and spinal injuries and stroke.
This event will be chaired by Dr Alice Roberts, senior teaching fellow at Bristol University, with degrees in medicine, anatomy, and archeological anthropology. However, she is best known for her popular television work; Time Team and Extreme Archeology, Coast, Don't Die Young and - starting on 10th May 2009 - a specially commissioned series on human evolution and early human migration entitled The Incredible Human Journey.
This mini-festival ‘Movies and the Mind’ showcases four films that raise questions about the nature of the brain and what happens when it goes wrong – and, uniquely, the chance to find out some of the answers.
Bristol is one of the UK’s leading centres for neuroscience research and clinical practice. At each of these events, following the film itself, experts from Bristol Neuroscience will be on hand for questions and discussion.
Leading scientists will be able to explain the latest neuroscience research, and those working in the clinical neuroscience specialities will speak of their experience treating people with brain disorders.
We do hope you can join us and explore the science of the brain with Bristol Neuroscience.
Partners
Bristol Neuroscience is delighted to be working in partnership, thanks to Andrew Kelly, with the Bristol Festival of Ideas.
We are also very grateful to the Watershed Media Centre and Arnolfini, with particular mention to Maddie and Mark, the Watershed programming team.
Without these organisations and individuals the festival would not be able to go ahead.
